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Texas Rangers likely to be shutout of All-Star Game starting lineup

ST. LOUIS – With less than two weeks remaining in All-Star voting, it is looking more and more like the Texas Rangers will not have a starter on the AL team for the first time since 2007.

The only position at which a Rangers player ranks higher than third is DH where Lance Berkman is second to Boston’s David Ortiz. Berkman trails by about 1.7 million votes.

While votes can still be cast on-line, the Rangers have already used their allotted number of dates for in-stadium voting.

In 2007, the Rangers’ only All-Star was Michael Young and he did not appear in the game. In each of the last five years, they have had at least two starters, with the one constant being Josh Hamilton. Hamilton, now with the Los Angeles Angels, will see his streak end, too. He is 13th among AL outfielders.

The Rangers’ position-by-position current place in the voting: C A.J. Pierzynski (3rd); 1B Mitch Moreland (5th); 2B Ian Kinsler (3rd); 3B Adrian Beltre (3rd), SS Elvis Andrus (3rd) and RF Nelson Cruz (7th). The Rangers’ other outfielders on the ballot, David Murphy and Leonys Martin, did not rank among the top 17 vote-getters.

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